Existed Quotes
907 quotes by 735 authors
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States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently about states' rights…
— Robert Kennedy
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With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though You…
— Graham Greene
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We carry on. We have ourselves and we carry on- in spite of our losses and mistakes and women, I think, have more than most.…
— Susan Fletcher
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What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed?" said Black, with a terrible fury in his face.…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.
— Oscar Wilde
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Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in…
— Philip K. Dick
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I began composing the next poem, the one that was to be written next. Not the last poem of those I had read, but the…
— Steve Erickson
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We all stood and gathered our backpacks and I looked at the floor around my chair to make sure I hadn’t dropped anything. I was…
— Curtis Sittenfeld
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history only existed in the human mind, subject to endless revision. 'each man kills the thing he loves'-Oscar Wilde. You kill it before it kills…
— Janet Fitch
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God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn’t press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew…
— Augusten Burroughs
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He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so…
— Mark Helprin
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Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar,…
— Bertrand Russell
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To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can…
— Thomas Paine
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The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each…
— Isabel Allende
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
— Aristotle
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I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I…
— Rene Descartes
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The music enchanted the air. It was like the south wind, like a warm night, like swelling sails beneath the stars, completely and utterly unreal...…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs…
— Neil Gaiman
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To-day we live so cowed under the bombardment of this intellectual artillery(the media) that hardly anyone can attain to the inward detachment that is required…
— Oswald Spengler
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